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Telegeography (cited in the article) publishes an interactive submarine cable map: https://www.submarinecablemap.com https://www.submarinecablemap.com You can

• manmal 2y ago
  Interestingly, I can’t see a single line from the US to Russia or China (not sure about the latter).
  • khuey 2y ago
    Not much reason to have direct cables. The parts of Russia and the US that are close to each other are very empty, and it makes sense to land transpacific cables in Japan or Taiwan and pick up traffic there rather than going non-stop to China.
    • zinekeller 2y ago
      > it makes sense to land transpacific cables in Japan or Taiwan and pick up traffic there rather than going non-stop to China. US-Russia, sure, probably, but this is not the case with US-China. PLCN (https://www.submarinenetworks.com/en/systems/trans-pacific/plcn https://www.submarinenetworks.com/en/systems/trans-pacific/p...), which was planned to land on Hong Kong (not even mainland China), has been significantly modified (now lands to Taiwan and the Philippines, with no sister cable to Hong Kong) due to objections from the US. There are also other plans to have a direct Shanghai-US connections (mainly for lower latency for financial information) that both governments have basically killed due to national security concerns.
• el_benhameen 2y ago
  The submarine cable map has long been on my want-to-splurge-but-can’t-justify list. Would make great office art.